Walter's Famous German Language Essentials Guide

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:43:52 +0200
> Ha!  There is no logical at all behind whether a word is masculine,
> feminine or neutral in German.

The same goes with French. e.g. body parts which one would think would be
obviously masculine are feminine (and vice versa). The insight that one of
my college professors gave on that is that it's the _word_ that has a
gender, not what the word represents. Now, that's not particularly helpful
in determining what gender a word is (you pretty much just have to memorize
it, though in French, at least, the ending of the word can give it away),
but if you think about it that way, it does help you to stop trying to
figure out the gender based on what object or concept you're referring to.

- Jonathan M Davis